Tangier (/ t æ n ˈ dʒ ɪər (z)/ tan-JEER(Z), Berber languages: ⵟⴰⵏⵊⴰ, romanized: ṭanja, Arabic: طنجة) is a city in northwestern Morocco.It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel.The town is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Ṭanja ...

The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis between March 1905 and May 1906 over the status of Morocco. Germany wanted to challenge France's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain. The crisis was resolved by the Algeciras Conference of 1906, a conference of mostly European countries that affirmed French control; …

Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community, immigrating to the region as early as 70 CE. Emily Gottreich contends that Jewish migration to Morocco predated the full formation of Judaism, as the Talmud was "written and redacted between 200 and 500 CE." In accordance with the norms of the Islamic legal system, Jewish Moroccans had separate legal courts pertaining to …

The Moroccan Goumiers (French: Les Goumiers Marocains) were indigenous Moroccan soldiers who served in auxiliary units attached to the French Army of Africa, between 1908 and 1956.While nominally in the service of the Sultan of Morocco, they served under French officers, including a period as part of the Free French Forces.. Employed initially as tribal irregulars, then in regular …

Article 4 of the Sahrawi constitution. The SADR government is based in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria.It controls the area east of the Moroccan Wall in Western Sahara which it labels the "Free Zone".; Area of the whole territory of Western Sahara claimed by SADR.; 612,000 is the estimate given for the population of Western Sahara based on UN projection growth since …

Mohammed VI was born on 21 August 1963 and was the second child and oldest son of Hassan II and his wife, Lalla Latifa Hammou. As their oldest son, Mohammed became heir apparent and Crown Prince from birth. [citation needed] His father was keen on giving him a religious and political education from an early age; at the age of four, he started attending the Quranic …

The Royal Moroccan Army is the branch of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. The army is about 175,000 troops strong , In case of war or a state of siege, an additional force of 150,000 Reservists and paramilitary forces, including 20,000 regulars of the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie and 30,000 Auxiliary Forces come under the …

The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje Vrijstaat; Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat;) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902. It is one of the three historical precursors to the …

The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco. At that time, the Spanish government was preparing to abandon the territory as part of the decolonization of Africa, just as it had previously granted …

The Moroccan mafia (Arabic: مافيا مغربية, Berber languages: ⵎⴰⴼⵢⴰ ⵉⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱⵉⵢⵏ, Dutch: Mocro Maffia) is a term that describes various criminal organisations that are mainly made up of people from Moroccan descent. These organisations are specialised in trafficking large quantities of cocaine and synthetic drugs through Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and ...

Mehdi Ben Barka (Arabic: المهدي بن بركة; 1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965) was a Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference.An opponent of French Imperialism and King Hassan II, he was "disappeared" in Paris in 1965.Many theories attempting to explain what happened to him were …

Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera is located 119 km (73.94 mi) southeast of Ceuta.It was a natural island in the Alboran Sea until 1934, when a huge thunderstorm washed large quantities of sand into the short channel between the island and the African continent. The channel was turned into a tombolo and the island became a peninsula, connected to the Moroccan coast by an 85 m …

The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state that dominated the western Sahel/Sudan in the 15th and 16th century. At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history.The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its leading ethnic group and ruling elite, the Songhai. Sonni Ali established Gao as the capital of the empire although a …

The Goumiers were the indigenous Moroccan soldiers who fought during World War II initially fighting on behalf of France and the Axis powers. Fifty-three percent of the soldiers provided to France by its colonial empire in September 1939 came from Morocco and areas of North Africa. After the Allied landing in Casablanca in 1942 (Operation Torch), the French administration in …